Vegetable Garden Day Two

After a busy week of planning the garden, we finally got our hands dirty again today laying down landscaping fabric and 2 cubic yards of mulch in the areas that will become the walkways around the three beds. We decided to remove some existing landscape edging which had created a small mulch walkway, and will even out the entire space with one continuous groundcover.

As for what we plan to grow, Becky has been surfing the web, studying Georgia Garden Guru Walter Reeves' page, the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Horticulture resources and numerous garden blogs. She also took a few extra moments this morning to carefully examine the vegetable plants at Home Depot, and has tried talking with anyone who will listen about our new endevour. She hopes to grow "everything we already eat and anything we want to try." So far the list includes:

• Lettuce - green leaf
• Spinach
• Tomatoes - slicing and cherry or grape
• Sugar Snap Peas
• Carrots
• Peppers
• Zucchini
• Yellow Squash
• Cucumbers
• Asparagus
• Corn
• Broccoli
• Eggplant
• Mushrooms
• Chick Peas
• Edemame
• Mushrooms

And some herbs:

• Basil
• Rosemary
• Mint
• Parsley
• Thyme
• Lavender
• Oregano
• Sage
• Catnip

We already have a strawberry bush which we would like to relocate and cultivate, so that too is a possibility. For now, we will wait for the yummy soil Tripp ordered today to be delivered. 7 cubic yards of compost/top soil to fill our 3 60-square foot beds. Next weekend we hope to start planting!

ETA: The strawberry bush is wild strawberries, not yummy strawberries and has been sprayed twice with weed killer, therefore, it will not be rescued. Perhaps a blueberry bush instead?